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And my chair was custom made to me, but not nearly as spectacular as the seats that you see in the crew dragon. i think elon has made a step up in the beauty and efficiency department. >> jon: yeah, as we were mentioning earlier, he does know how to catch the eye with some of these designs. jose, let's talk about, you know, what you think this does for space exploration and, you know, the future of the u.s. space program. nasa is farming a lot of these missions out to private companies, and, you know, from what i'm seeing, companies like space x are doing a pretty good job of it. >> absolutely...

Astronauts emerge fairly soon, but again, the leaps and bounds in computing technology in space flight, jose, are absolutely amazing. >> they are. i mean, they are so amazing that, you know, we can send civilians with practically no experience, granted that two of the civilian astronauts there are pilots, but they absolutely did not have to take control of the capsule, of the vehicle at no point, and that's due to the computational power and the development of space x, the folks that are able to control it from the ground, and so it's amazing, and i'm pretty excited about it, and, you know, we...

Four, and they realize, you know, we did it, and we're home. >> jon: joining us now jose hernandez, a nasa astronaut who was on board the space shuttle discovery back in 2009. jose, are you feeling a little envy tonight? >> absolutely. any time i see someone go to space and come back, you know, it brings back great memories. and it's the good type of envy, though, you know. it's like this is great that we are sending more and more people to space, and now, you know, this is the epitome of it because it's an all civilian, non-career astronauts that we're sending to space, and that's quite an ac...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think you've probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, it's been a fund-raising campaign for st. jude's, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there's been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we're getting our first images. let's listen to mission control. >> as part of the inspir...

Because barring was not a problem for the 2017 republican tax cuts. there was no raising of hands, gnashing of teeth by republicans then. you get point. why not then and so much now. >> the debt ceiling needs to be raised and the democrats want to raise it by a lot for a lot of spending which to me is big government socialism. and i'm just not going to be a rubber stamp to that nor are any of the republicans that i've talked to. >> let's talk about -- >> so we have a 50/50 senate. that is what the american people have given us. which is a mandate to move to the middle. president biden ran for ...